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Four BBC journalists were injured in the attack outside the German embassy during morning rush hour.

An embassy security guard was killed and some staff were wounded, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on Twitter.

The explosion also shattered windows and blew doors off their hinges in houses hundreds of metres away.

The dead also included Afghan security guards at the facilities, including the US Embassy, and 11 American contractors were wounded - none with life-threatening injuries, a US State Department official said.

No-one has claimed responsibility for the attack, which came in the first week of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Many have called for better security in Afghanistan's capital after the atrocity.

President Ghani met with senior security officials in an emergency security meeting a day after the tragic events.

A statement from the president's office said the meeting determined that an investigation must find out what exactly happened that led to the violence and identify those who acted against the law.